Python Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Python
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Python skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 16 22
Rank change year-on-year -24 +6 -15
Permanent jobs citing Python 180 334 374
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 4.29% 9.95% 7.58%
As % of the Programming Languages category 30.05% 30.64% 22.32%
Number of salaries quoted 104 172 268
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,375 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.40% +19.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,563 £79,063 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £107,500 £83,750
South East median annual salary £60,000 £66,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -9.77% +15.65% -4.17%

All Programming Languages
Thames Valley

Python falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 599 1,090 1,676
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 14.29% 32.47% 33.98%
Number of salaries quoted 452 628 1,336
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £85,625
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -4.35%

Python
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Python relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Python job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Python
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Python

Python
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Python in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 27 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Python in the Thames Valley

Python
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Python within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 27 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -34 69 £45,000 -35.71% 307
Oxfordshire -5 57 £67,500 -3.57% 76
Buckinghamshire -13 54 £60,000 - 59
Python
South East

Python
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.56%) Anypoint
2 1 (0.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.56%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.56%) SAS
Applications
1 35 (19.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (5.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 69 (38.33%) Azure
2 67 (37.22%) Power Platform
3 46 (25.56%) AWS
4 23 (12.78%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (10.00%) Azure AI
6 16 (8.89%) GCP
7 14 (7.78%) Serverless
8 13 (7.22%) Amazon EC2
9 12 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
10 11 (6.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (6.11%) SaaS
11 10 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (5.00%) GitHub
13 8 (4.44%) Salesforce Service Cloud
14 7 (3.89%) dbt
14 7 (3.89%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 6 (3.33%) Snowflake
16 5 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
16 5 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 6 (3.33%) DNS
1 6 (3.33%) Firewall
1 6 (3.33%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.67%) Internet
2 3 (1.67%) MQTT
3 2 (1.11%) 5G
3 2 (1.11%) SpaceWire
4 1 (0.56%) 4G
4 1 (0.56%) Intranet
4 1 (0.56%) MIMO
4 1 (0.56%) Modbus
4 1 (0.56%) NGN
4 1 (0.56%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (29.44%) Power BI
2 31 (17.22%) Tableau
3 17 (9.44%) Relational Database
4 15 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (7.22%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (5.56%) Metadata
6 10 (5.56%) RDBMS
7 7 (3.89%) SQL Server
8 5 (2.78%) Qlik Sense
9 4 (2.22%) BigQuery
10 3 (1.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (1.67%) Data Hub
10 3 (1.67%) Looker
10 3 (1.67%) MySQL
10 3 (1.67%) Spark SQL
11 2 (1.11%) Airbyte
11 2 (1.11%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (1.11%) Data Lake
11 2 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
11 2 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (12.78%) Git
2 16 (8.89%) Jenkins
3 10 (5.56%) JMeter
3 10 (5.56%) JUnit
3 10 (5.56%) Mockito
4 7 (3.89%) GitLab
4 7 (3.89%) MLflow
5 4 (2.22%) Selenium
6 3 (1.67%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.67%) Postman
6 3 (1.67%) SoapUI
7 2 (1.11%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.56%) Appium
8 1 (0.56%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.56%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.56%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.56%) LabVIEW
General
1 72 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.44%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (21.11%) Finance
4 17 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 11 (6.11%) Law
7 9 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (2.78%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.22%) Marketing
11 3 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.67%) Retail
12 2 (1.11%) Automotive
12 2 (1.11%) Aviation
12 2 (1.11%) Banking
12 2 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (1.11%) Multimedia
13 1 (0.56%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.56%) Legal
13 1 (0.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (25.00%) Analyst
2 41 (22.78%) Developer
3 31 (17.22%) Data Analyst
4 24 (13.33%) Senior
5 21 (11.67%) Software Engineer
6 19 (10.56%) Junior
7 18 (10.00%) Junior Analyst
7 18 (10.00%) Junior Data Analyst
8 13 (7.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 12 (6.67%) Lead
10 11 (6.11%) Java Developer
10 11 (6.11%) Power Platform Developer
11 10 (5.56%) Full-Stack Java Developer
11 10 (5.56%) Mid-Level Java Developer
12 9 (5.00%) Data Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Financial Analyst
13 8 (4.44%) Business Intelligence Analyst
14 7 (3.89%) Python Engineer
14 7 (3.89%) Salesforce Developer
15 6 (3.33%) Associate Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.89%) REST
2 15 (8.33%) SOAP
3 14 (7.78%) .NET
4 12 (6.67%) HTML
4 12 (6.67%) Middleware
4 12 (6.67%) Spring Boot
5 11 (6.11%) JSON
5 11 (6.11%) Spring
5 11 (6.11%) Web Services
5 11 (6.11%) XML
6 10 (5.56%) ActiveMQ
6 10 (5.56%) Apache Camel
6 10 (5.56%) Hibernate
6 10 (5.56%) jQuery
6 10 (5.56%) WireMock
7 8 (4.44%) Lightning Web Components
7 8 (4.44%) Visualforce
8 6 (3.33%) scikit-learn
9 5 (2.78%) PyTorch
10 4 (2.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.44%) Low-Code
2 16 (8.89%) Life Science
3 15 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (3.89%) Algorithms
5 5 (2.78%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.78%) Hackathon
5 5 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (2.22%) AI Agents
6 4 (2.22%) Client/Server
6 4 (2.22%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.67%) Animation
7 3 (1.67%) LIMS
8 2 (1.11%) Cyber Defence
8 2 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.11%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.56%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.56%) Smart City
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.33%) Linux
2 9 (5.00%) Unix
3 4 (2.22%) Windows
4 2 (1.11%) VxWorks
5 1 (0.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (35.00%) CI/CD
2 56 (31.11%) Agile
3 52 (28.89%) Business Intelligence
4 51 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
5 49 (27.22%) AI
6 38 (21.11%) DevOps
7 35 (19.44%) Computer Science
7 35 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 33 (18.33%) ETL
9 31 (17.22%) Decision-Making
10 29 (16.11%) Analytics
11 27 (15.00%) Machine Learning
12 26 (14.44%) Data Governance
12 26 (14.44%) Data Modelling
13 20 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 20 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
14 19 (10.56%) Full-Stack Development
14 19 (10.56%) SDLC
15 18 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
15 18 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 75 (41.67%) SQL
2 37 (20.56%) JavaScript
3 31 (17.22%) Java
4 25 (13.89%) C++
5 22 (12.22%) C#
6 14 (7.78%) Shell Script
7 11 (6.11%) Bash
7 11 (6.11%) C
8 9 (5.00%) VBA
9 8 (4.44%) Apex Code
10 7 (3.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 6 (3.33%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.78%) Go
12 5 (2.78%) Kusto Query Language
13 4 (2.22%) Fortran
13 4 (2.22%) Rust
14 3 (1.67%) PHP
14 3 (1.67%) R
15 2 (1.11%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 50 (27.78%) Degree
2 25 (13.89%) Security Cleared
3 22 (12.22%) Azure Certification
4 21 (11.67%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (5.56%) SC Cleared
7 9 (5.00%) ACCA
7 9 (5.00%) CIMA
8 7 (3.89%) PhD
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 2 (1.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
9 2 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.89%) Data Quality
1 16 (8.89%) QA
2 4 (2.22%) ECSS
3 3 (1.67%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.67%) GDPR
3 3 (1.67%) GxP
4 1 (0.56%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 23 (12.78%) Docker
2 5 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.22%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.22%) KVM
4 1 (0.56%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (13.89%) Kubernetes
2 12 (6.67%) Terraform
3 11 (6.11%) Kibana
4 6 (3.33%) Ansible
5 4 (2.22%) Kubeflow
6 3 (1.67%) Argo
7 1 (0.56%) Control-M
7 1 (0.56%) Grafana
7 1 (0.56%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 33 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (6.11%) Dynatrace
2 11 (6.11%) SAP
3 10 (5.56%) Databricks
3 10 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 10 (5.56%) Splunk
4 8 (4.44%) MuleSoft
5 6 (3.33%) Google
6 5 (2.78%) VMware
7 3 (1.67%) Agilent
7 3 (1.67%) Oracle
7 3 (1.67%) Talend
8 2 (1.11%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.11%) Cognos
8 2 (1.11%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.11%) IBM
8 2 (1.11%) Informatica
8 2 (1.11%) OpenAI
8 2 (1.11%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.11%) Zoho